So do mine, but I've tended to assume as much based on how many people flock to her defense whenever her ridiculousness is brought up on LGBT blogs, as well as the alacrity with which the dance floor fills up at Ye Olde Gay Bar whenever her songs come on (which is my cue to get another whiskey and look grumpy).…

Katy Perry is an LGBT ally in name only—she's only on board now that it's the popular thing for celebrities to do, and while that wouldn't really be a bad thing in itself, it doesn't change the fact that her music has been consistently exploitative when it (and she) hasn't been outright homophobic/transphobic. Sure,…

"The New Cast of ThunderCats Explains Why Their Show's Hard-to-Please Fandom Is About to Hate Them for Spitting on the Grave of the Original Against Which They Will Inevitably Be Unfairly Compared."

By now I'd hope it wouldn't be too much to ask. By Season 7 of Buffy it finally seemed like Joss and friends figured out that the whitewashing/awkward politics of racial representation on Buffy were avoidable, and to my mind Joss has tried to make an effort since then. Plus, we've already had queer characters of color…

Cloak and Dagger on ABC Family? Does that mean they're going to have to tone it down a lot, considering the characters' storylines have tended to be pretty dark? I say this knowing full well that The Middleman managed to get away with a lot on ABC Family, but, well, The Middleman also got canned.

I loved (was traumatized by) the Haunted Mansion when I was a kid, but when I went back in high school, all of the ghosts and ghouls had been painted various dayglo colors, I suspect in an effort to keep the ride from being "too scary." It was, well, awful. Does anyone know if they've changed it back, or have they…

Thank goodness for the (slightly muted) Wilhelm Scream—it totally made me feel like I was there, swinging with Spidey, and not in some campy, CGI nightmare!

This is something I will never understand. I am adamantly pro-Chesty Werewolf, but I don't get the logic whereby all Hollywood werewolves needs be naired to hell. Where's your bear fanservice, True Blood?

Okay, that makes sense.

Er, isn't it a replacement for purposes of hyperbole? Here Charlie Jane and Mandy are using "literal" in place of "figurative" to make the "shadow" seem even more ominous, much as my partner, when he's cracking up, says, "I am literally dying." In both cases, "figurative[ly]" would make more semantic sense according…

Allegories and aesthetics are not the same thing.

I harp on my partner for this, but apparently people have misused "literal" in place of "figurative" (or "figural") so often and with such relish that some dictionaries now insist that both uses are actually correct. This seems counter-intuitive to me, but.

Oh man, I totally missed "Sebastian O" but I'll go pick it up this week. I had no idea about their having a copy of "The Invisibles" on set—that's pretty shameless, and they also didn't do so well channeling the aesthetic to boot.

Ee, I'm gonna go ahead and say that, while I'm not quite sure I've ever bought Morrison's claims about The Matrix being an Invisibles knockoff—the series are drastically different, they're just both based off a fairly obvious premise that has been around for a while—The Invisibles is still a helluva lot smarter, but…

I was figuring out how to word a similar sentiment, but now I don't have to. Thanks, Mordicai!

Oh damn, I need to go back and watch that again.

Everyone go watch Derek Jarman's "Edward II" right now. It's on Netflix streaming and it's amazing. As an added bonus, it has an Annie Lennox cameo. New Queer Cinema Tilda Swinton FTW; she not only embodied the movement, she also managed to outlast it without ditching a lot of its aesthetic commitments.

Oooh, shiny.

I've heard people hating on the effect Buffy's relationships with others (usually Dawn, Spike, or Angel) had on her as a character, but besides episodes and arcs in which it was kind of hard to love the show period (Season 4, I'm looking at you), I can't think of any point at which I've heard people rag on Buffy—or…

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